it is where the brutal stabbing of a three-family members, only a three-year-old girl survived. we learned that ruben ramirez is now a "person of interest" and was picked up by marshals in san francisco at 9:15 after a five-hour intense manhunt. we were over the neighborhood yesterday. ruben ramirez is wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a one-year-old boy and a 48-year-old woman and a three-year-old survived. authorities believe ruben ramirez was related somehow to the victims. >> he has been located in the city of san francisco and our detectives reached out to the marshal service and the san francisco police department. he is now detained by the agencies. we are this talking to him now.

>> all the victims were related. authorities say ruben ramirez has a history of mental illness. we are told he was somehow related to his victims. a three-year-old is recovering after the brutal stabbing yesterday. we do not know what her condition is. police still investigating the incident to find what, exactly, the motive was in this brutal stabbing in san jose yesterday. >> this morning, two pre-teen children from vallejo are recovering after they were shot by two older kids. officers say the shooters approached four younger kids in an alley last note. the suspects are two boys between the age of 14 and 16 and the victims were between 11 and 13. one of the teens pulled a .38

caliber and fired at the youngsters from 20' missing two of them. the wounds of those who were hit are not considered life threatening. >> when you have 15 and 16-year-old shooting 11 to 13-year-old children, that is ridiculous. it says that the city is east hook and something needs to be done to control this stuff. >> witnesses helped police track down the suspects in the neighborhood. investigators say the suspects and the victims all live in the name area. >> rescuers hope to find safe a dozen people missing after several deadly tornadoes hit texas. we have new images of the destruction and new information from the newsroom. abc7 news reporter katie marzullo has latest. >> six people are confirmed dead in north texas where these tornadoes hit. look at this, we have aerials above homes in texas, the worst

hit here, with two subdivisions destroyed by one twister. these are large homes, swimming pools, the other homes in the other subdivisions were built by habitat for humanity. the number people killed could grow. two of the dead were so far from the subdivision they actually had to widen their search area. 14 people are still missing this morning. 250 people left homeless after the storms and 80 people were hurt, mostly already out of the hospital but two dozen have been transferred to another facility for more care. >> things just started swirling and stuff was going through the air, tin roofs and stuff started

hitting the house. >> roads are closed and hail the size of grapefruit. the red cross is helping people. officials are hoping to have a clearer view of the devastation at daylight with another briefing from law enforcement at 6:00. >> thank you. today, the lake county coroner is expected to performance autopsy on a missing san francisco girl whose body was found in a creek. searchers found the nine-year-old mikaela lynch yesterday morning near her family vacation home in clear lake. she was last seen on surveillance video leaving the home on sunday prompting a desperate search. mikaela lynch suffered from severe autism. police say the autopsy is expected to confirm this was no foul play in her death. >> a search is underway for a missing petaluma man considered at risk. police say john worth has a brain injury from a motorcycle accident and gets confused.

he cannot perform every day funds without help. 49-year-old was seen yesterday after leaving the house on a red bicycle. he has a cell phone but accident know how to use it. police tracked the phone to vallejo. >> a woman found dead at a holiday inn express was involved in an intense struggle before she died. a cleaning crew found her body at the hotel yesterday afternoon. police say she did not find a weapon and they are not sure if she died at the hotel. an autopsy will be held to determine what happened. >> investigators are hoping a new piece of evidence will lead them to the man accused of killing his own family near reading. thing do was found by hikers last wednesday the day after his wife and two young daughters were found shot to death in shasta county. they came across the dog south of eureka in the same area and the same day that miller's

ditched truck was discovered. a manhunt has spanned three counties and they are trying to track down the hikers who see if they came in contact with miller. >> there is a news conference at san francisco city hall to talk of security, safety, and road closings for the 102 bay to breakers race. agoers is banned backpacks and large backs along the course following the boston marathon bombings last month. more than 60,000 runners, walkers and spectators are expected to be on the streets of san francisco. stage 8 of the bicycle tour of san francisco will start at 8:00 a.m. >> it will be busy in san francisco. >> the warriors must win at oracle arena to avoid elimination against the spurs and end a dream season. they tuned up for a practice. they must win trailing 3-2 in the best of seven after losing

in san antonio on thursday. if they win they go to game seven. the last time our team went this far in the playoffs was in 1977 against the lakers which they ultimately lost. tip-off is 7:30 on espn. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has a report next half hour. tonight, the sharks will try to even their western conference semi final series against the kings at the staple center. san jose lost the opener on tuesday to the defending stanley cup champs with puck dropping at 7:00 p.m. the series shifts to the pavilion on saturday night. we want to see your pride in both bay-area teams with e-mailing us your photos to us and we will share them on air and on-line at abc7news.com. >> warriors, time for the cup to

get going. >> mike nicco meteorologist, what do you think? >> as good as it will get with dry atmosphere. radar runs look impressive, shooting into the clouds and seeing the moisture, and when it is falling, it is evaporated. best chance for sprinkles is up-and-down 680, headed from concord, and pleasanton hill and lafayette and walnut creek and san ramon and dublin and pleasanton, and livermore, the whole area and possibly orinda getting scattered sprinkles according to live doppler 7 hd. temperatures are mild in the mid-50's through 7:00 with sprinkles likely and drizzle at the coast. showers will become more scattered or more likely to develop around noon and 4:00 and chance will linger around 7:00 but notice the temperatures are stuck in the 50's at the coast, and 60's around the bay and inland. as we move forward tomorrow,

cool again, but the sun will develop as we head through the afternoon and lock the at warm temperatures, we are nearly six to 18 degrees warmer by the end of the week. how is the commute? >> good morning, everyone, we do see some of the sprinkles on the map indicated in green. i will show thank you in a moment. that means to slow down the speed if you run into slick roadways. we have a look outside at the golden gate bridge where we have construction in the northbound direction and we have a lane blocked there with caltran crews pointing traffic toward the left-hand side to pick up the cones and open up all the lanes. southbound from sausalito to san francisco is a great drive and as we head to the richmond and san rafael bridge one lane is shut down until 5:00 a.m. in the eastern portion as you make your drive from san quentin to the east bay. >> 4:39. a huge shoplifting ring busted.

next in the story you will see only on abc7 news what the thieves were planning to do with so many goods you would never think someone would want to steal. >> no winner last night in the huge powerball drawing. the knee record jackpot will be up for grabs in the nex

covering san ramon and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> welcome back, a 14-month-old girl is in the hospital this morning after a nightmare caught on video. she was in a stroller and it fell on to train tracks. you can see in the surveillance video a woman standing on a platform in philadelphia with her daughter in the stroller and the stroller starts rolling and gaining speed and, boom, toppling over on to the tracks. fortunately the outer rail was not charged and the police were able to stop oncoming trains. the mother jumped down on to the

tracks and with folks hemming her lifted her baby to safety. the baby is fine. >> scary. utility sport vehicles are the preferred form of trance sport for families but they are safer than the family car? >> this is video from the insurance institute for highway safety. they put 13 small s.u.v.'s through a tough new small overlap crash test. the subaru and outlander sport were given the new top safety plus award indicating the very safest vehicles. the hyundai and kia and jeep patriot and ford escape earned "poor." >> san francisco police have busted a major shoplifting ring. they were after every-day items such as batteries. they confiscated $100,000 worth of the items.

our reporter has this story you will see only here. >> this is a first. >> lieutenant sanchez showed off the cache they confiscated from this apartment in san francisco's china town neighborhood. >> we saw bags and boxes stolen property stacked up high against the wall. >> two daze of surveillance video led them to arrest this man, 62-year-old is in jail now. >> the ringleader was putting out a daily shopping list from a network of thieves and they shoplift this item by item. >> gods were stolen from c.v.s., target, safe way and wall growns and he would pay cash and re-sell them to flea market and stores. >> they are going to the smaller

mom-and-pop type stores. >> police called in executives from the victims. they scanned the goods and figured out all of this is worth $300,000 to $400,000 retail. they say crimes like these drive up consumer prices. police are investigating the possibility of more arrests after inventorying thousands of items. >> brace yourself. we will have a staggering powerball jackpot on saturday since no one won, the jackpot has skyrocketed this morning to $475 million! no one hit all six numbers yesterday. but the numbers are 2, 11, 20, 36, 44, and powerball is 32. six in california are waking up $250,000 richer this morning because they matched some of the numbers including winners in san

jose, and fremont. saturday's jackpot will be the second-largest in history but, still, more than $100 million behind the record powerball jackpot. is it enough to lure you in? >> what? enough to lure me in with $1 million. what are you talking about? >> we will check with mike to see how valuable our numbers are. >> lower, that is for sure. maybe down around the range to pick a few for the powerball. live doppler 7 hd shows small craft advisory not a great day to be on the bay war whether san francisco or delta community and along the coast from marin county north from point reyes we will have northwest winds at 20 to 30 knots from 11:00 this morning until 8:00 p.m. tonight. moving away from mount diabolo that is our best radar return headed to antioch and brentwood and oakley.

if anything is falling expect it to come your way. away from danville and blackhawk there is another stronger-looking radar return into the prairie land and toward the windmills. offshore we have another batch but not so impressive. this will head for the heart of the bay the next hour or so. expect an uptick in the amount of possible sprinkles. the wind is blowing ashore and we are looking at the ferry building, a wind blowing from west to east and that will keep us cool again with temperatures in the south bay will struggle into the 60's and may get out of there around morgan hill and gilroy at 70 to 71 and most of us in the mid-to-upper 60's and mid-to-upper 50's along the coast with drizzle possible this morning and near 60 in downtown south san francisco and mid-to-upper 60's for most of the north bay area breezy along

the coast and mid-to-upper 50's and hayward and berkeley the cool spots and east bay valley around 70 and possible tonight, sprinkles linger. mostly cloudy. a little cooler. 40's in the north bay valley. half moon bay and palo alto and towards fremont, everyone else in the 50's. what we are dealing with, a cold front coming in but the bulk of the energy, the area of low pressure is headed to the north. there is a disconnect between the moisture to the south and the energy needed for it so we will get less than .1". all of us will have to deal with the cooler weather today and tomorrow. away from the coast, a warming trend and upper 80's inland.

>> light conditions in san jose 280, the drive is empty. we have mostly construction projects. no crashes to speak were. dry conditions mostly. the bay bridge toll plaza has a few tolls shut until 5:00 a.m. including 12 through 15 but traffic is moving smoothly. headed in the eastbound direction from san francisco we have three lanes that are closed until 6:30 a.m. so give yourself a few extra minutes because that could slow down the drive. >> three congressional committees will continue to investigate potential civil rights violations by the i.r.s. after the out of thing of acting commissioner miller. president obama made the announcement from the white house last night calling the i.r.s. conduct inexcusable and americans are rightfully angry. miller was asked to resign facing the growing political scandal over the i.r.s. having targeted conservative groups

like the tea party in their applications for tax-exempt status. the f.b.i. is investigating. >> the i.r.s. investigation will likely steal the spotlight when the president holds a joint news conference with the prime minister of turkey today. the leader's visit to washington comes days after two car bombings in turkey killed dozens in the deadliest terror attack there in years. authorities are blaming syrian intelligence and turkey's prime minister has been pushing the united states to take more aggressive steps to topple syrian president bashar al-assad regime. >> canada's prime minister is in new york today to lobby business leaders for support of the controversial keystone xl pipeline project. the $5 billion pipeline carries border from north of the border to the gulf of mexico. the prime minister says the oil will boost canada's economy and help ease north america's reliance on middle eastern petroleum. environmental groups say the pipeline could be prone to leaks or vulnerable to sabotage.

they are asking the obama administration to kill the project. >> thousands of customers with the most popular bangs could be getting refunds and what you need to know to see if you qualify. >> oh dear, an unlikely passenger hopped a ride on a bus and caused quite a stir but how he

>> new this morning the baby pentagon wing at the california academy of science has a name and it is linus. there he is after making the first public debut last month. the african penguin is about four months old and is named in honor of a very special person who was originally described the species in 1758.

we are the only tv station who will have access for the official naming ceremony at 10:00 a.m. >> i thought it was linus and lucy. >> i was waiting for the piano. >> now the forecast. mike? >> we will talk about radar and what is going on. we have a few radar returns but otherwise it is quiet and not getting much in the way of ground drizzle. pittsburg and highway 4 and brentwood and oakley that will head off to the east and the back edge of that right now is moving through pleasanton hill and lafayette and to oakland. scattered sprinkles for the morning commute. how is the commute? >> you want to make sure to slow down because with the wins that

come after it has been dry you run into the risk of spinouts and things like that. be very careful. right now, it is quite dry on the san mateo bridge in the westbound direction from hayward toward foster city you have clear conditions with no construction projects. you can see the green on our maps all the way in the east bay, so that is where you will find the more treacherous areas but not too bad right now, we have no accidents in oakland right now. we do have some construction southbound 880 between high street and 66 avenue until 5:00. eric and kristen? >> thank you. the city of oakland is taking on two huge credit card companies over accusations they charged unreasonably high fees for process, payments, visa and mastercard reached a proposed $7.extra billion settlement over the fees but oakland city attorney is challenging that saying it doesn't pay enough to victims and does nothing to change the

practice. the city claims the fees cost oakland oakland taxpayers an estimated $1 million a year. >> if you are wells fargo customer you could have money coming to you, because they are ordered to pay $203 million back to customers who paid overdraft fees. the judge re-instate add ruling made in 2010 that the bank appealed saying the bank processes the highest dollar amount checks and other payments first rather than going by transaction date which made customer accounts drain faster and more likely to enoccur overdraft fees. wells fargo said they will continue to appeal. >> a bus driver in pennsylvania is fined after a close encounter with a four legged passenger. the driver was going down the road and, boom, a deer shocked through the front window and the driver said he was scared but look at that he realized the animal was more frightened. he opened the door and let the dee out. there was damage to the bus but

both the driver and the deer appear to be okay, just a little shaken. >> check that out. there was a passenger on the bus. >> if anyone was kicked by the deer. >> breaking news from texas where dawn is revealing the destruction from a series of tornadoes in a picture of some of the devastation. the search-and-rescue is underway right now. >> the threat of a fast-moving wildfire is posing a strong one in the central valley and there is a challenge for firefighters in getting it under control. >> it is do or go home time for the warriors. we are at oracle arena with the big challenge they face in

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning, at 5:00 on thursday. thanks for joining us. i am kristen sze. >> we will find out what is going on weather-wise. here is mike. you can see the cloud cover we talked about and a few scattered sprinkles especially on the east side of mount diabolo so 9 peach street in brentwood and oaklandly will get much needed sprinkles and possibly a light shower. this is the cold front, the best chance of wet weather from now through about noon so watch out for scattered sprinkles. temperatures will going to be cool, 50's at